Chapter 355: Making a fortune in silence

Qin Han asked doubtfully, "Not Tottenham?"
"Tottenham is merely a side project, a smokescreen!
What Fang Huan truly wants is the…shares that ENIC was forced to sell!"
"Shares?"
"Yes! ENIC holds a large number of shares in European clean energy companies.
This time, Fang Huan deliberately targeted them, forcing them to urgently raise funds and resulting in forced liquidation.
Meanwhile, under Fang Huan's manipulation, the stock prices of those clean energy companies have been utterly driven to rock bottom."
"And then… Fang Huan bought them all at rock-bottom prices?"
"That's right! All the related assets that ENIC dumped were snapped up by Fang Huan like cabbages!
Now, Fang Huan holds the largest stake in the European clean energy sector!
Do you know what the newly appointed president, the "Sleeping King," besides semiconductors, has publicly declared he will dedicate all his efforts to promoting?"
At that moment, Qin Han's eyes widened suddenly.
"...Clean energy?"
"Exactly. Trump withdrew from the Paris Climate Agreement, but Sleepy King signed an executive order on his first day in office announcing rejoining.
Furthermore, he publicly stated that he would fulfill his campaign promise to make unprecedentedly massive investments in the clean energy sector!"
This means that Fanghuan Investment will become the biggest beneficiary of this global energy revolution!
"Wait! That's not right! Fanghuan owns a European company; won't the US government ultimately support its own companies?"
"Chairman, you are unaware of this. In the field of clean energy, European technology is the most advanced in the world.
Even American companies are largely deeply integrated with Europe in terms of core technology and supply chains.
In other words, whether Sleepy King likes it or not, if he wants to implement his clean energy policy, Fanghuan Investment has become an indispensable core element!"
"!?!"
At this moment, all the fragments suddenly pieced together, forming a chillingly grand picture!
"So... Tottenham Hotspur was just a smokescreen, a way to lull everyone into a false sense of security?
Fang Huan's real target from the very beginning was those clean energy shares held by ENIC?!"
"Yes. This was definitely a scheme Fang Huan had orchestrated from the start.
We don't know what kind of understanding he reached with the Sleeping King government.
But now, these two forces are destined to cooperate.
Even... they might have already secretly joined forces!
Otherwise, the Sleeping King wouldn't be so impatient, as if he was just waiting for Fang Huan to take down ENIC, immediately announcing his full-scale push for clean energy!"
"Holy crap... what the hell is this?"
Qin Han muttered to himself, feeling his worldview being violently shaken.
He had always thought Su Hao was associated with the old guard of capital like Trump's.
But what happened?
"So... he and Sleeping King are actually in cahoots?!"
***
"Damn it, I've never seen anything like this before!"
In the chairman's office of Fanghuan Group, Huang Fengwen shook his head, both amused and exasperated, an unlit cigar between his fingers, and exclaimed to Lin Fan:
"Our Fang Huan, dabbling in world-saving vaccines and managing sovereign wealth funds for the national team, has made enough money to fill the sea!
And what's the result? Not even a decent ripple online.
But he bought a football team, and overnight he's trending! What kind of mess is that?"
Lin Fan chuckled, revealing a set of white teeth.
"Chairman Huang, that's not surprising.
Football is the world's number one sport, the spiritual opium of sports fans, the fan base is huge.
Besides, ordinary people, who has the patience to listen to those dry financial jargon? Nothing beats this simple, direct, gossip-filled juicy scoop!"
Huang Fengwen nodded in deep agreement.
Indeed, for the past few years, Fang Huan has been like a giant beast lurking in the deep sea, always appearing and disappearing amidst earth-shattering events, yet never truly leaping out of the water.
Look at what Fang Huan holds in his hands right now:
The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, controlling the pulse of the digital age!
The world-class social networking platform "PicPic," gripping the voices of hundreds of millions of netizens!
A monopolistic vaccine company, holding the lifelines of countless people in its hands!
Logically, any one of these assets would be enough to dominate the capital markets.
However, even so, the name "Fang Huan" remains shrouded in mystery in the public consciousness.
He's been in the news, there have been reports, but the online reaction has remained lukewarm, with an eerie calm.
Until now, with the news of Fang Huan's acquisition of Tottenham Hotspur in the English Premier League, the entire Chinese internet seems to have been detonated. "Fang Huan's" name has instantly become a trending topic across the entire internet!
"Do you think... this could be something Chairman Su deliberately arranged?" Lin Fan cautiously posed a bold guess.
"Oh? Deliberately arranged?" Huang Fengwen raised an eyebrow.
"Think about it, we have 'picpic' as a powerful tool for public opinion. Making 'Fang Huan' a global sensation would be a piece of cake, wouldn't it?
But we didn't. We've never done any proper brand marketing.
And the trillion-dollar myth we created with sovereign wealth funds—we didn't go around shouting about it. What does that mean?"
It means that those in the industry who want to know have their own channels to find out;
As for those outside the industry, Su Hao never intended for them to know too much!
It's all about "making a fortune quietly."
“There’s an old saying, Chairman Huang,” Lin Fan said in a low, mysterious voice,
“Power exposed to the sunlight is far less powerful and more awe-inspiring than a hand hidden in the shadows!”
“You mean…” Huang Fengwen’s breath hitched slightly,
“Su Hao is deliberately keeping things quiet for us, suppressing Fang Huan from becoming the public eye?”
“Most likely. With Chairman Su’s methods, getting us trending on social media every day would be a piece of cake, wouldn’t it?
But he’s deliberately not doing that, which can only mean that, in the past, keeping a low profile was more advantageous for us.”
Once this logic clicked, Huang Fengwen instantly understood.
Indeed, what would have happened if Fang Huan had been exposed to the public eye from the beginning with the aura of a "stock market legend" and a "financial tycoon"?
Right now, those bastards on Wall Street are constantly devising conspiracy theories about Fang Huan, almost portraying them as a Chinese version of the Freemasons.
If those theories had taken hold in the global media earlier, creating a huge uproar, government officials in various countries would probably have already taken drastic measures, launching a comprehensive crackdown and investigation against Fang Huan.
That Su Hao has mastered the art of "playing dumb to fool others" to the core!
"But now he's suddenly bringing 'Fang Huan's' name back into the spotlight. What's he up to?" Huang Fengwen pressed.
"Perhaps it's because Chairman Su feels the time is right.
Now, we no longer need to be beholden to anyone!"